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by jjmarr 6mo ago
There's two purposes to review. One is to enforce ownership, and the other is to provide mentorship. Even if you don't have ownership, mentoring is still useful. I get asked for review by teammembers on an area I have expertise in
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
My parents indoctrinated me as a child to constantly hit save because they grew up with that. It was a part of our cultural expectations for "basic life skills to teach children".
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
> Or is there major grading on a curve, or a big benefit for being the top person in your classroom of 15? Yes. UofT even has "down curves" where your mark is lowered to ensure the correct distribution.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
We've opened a new med school after a decade of planning. 1.5% acceptance rate.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
> No matter how many have good grades, you can always pick the top n by grades. Which, if you're talking about "grades" as in GPA, is plausible. I live in Ontario and we're there. 40% of Waterloo students had above a
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
I'm spending more than my salary on AI, about $16k last month. Employees at most companies are bottlenecked on things other than code, like manual testing or waiting to compile. Companies like Meta, mentioned in the article, have inves
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
I believe it happens more often in Canada. Here's a case where the RTO ultimatum was ruled constructive dismissal, because the manager made a verbal agreement to amend the terms of employment. https://mathewsdinsdale.com&#
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Managers usually have the authority to bind the company to an employment contract. Even if they don't, the rule of "apparent authority" often means the employee can still sue. In the USA this is mostly theoretical since HR co
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Cppreference.com has completed their migration and is no longer read-only(isocpp.org)
4 points by jjmarr 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
It is a show about depression, which is why people love it. The "weird mysticism" is just the reification (pun intended) of the urge to self-harm. i.e. Literally turning into a puddle of emotion, or allowing oneself to be crucifie
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
It's a show about 14 year olds with emotional angst and the show reminds you the robots are a depression masking metaphor every other episode. Yes, it's a show for pre-teens and teenagers.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
It's not immersive/interactive compared to the real thing. Ironically, AI is solving this better than VR did. Many people are in relationships with AI girlfriends. Not many are in relationships with VR waifus.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
I thought this was true for a while, but it seems to be a side effect of Betamax being more expensive in general . The counterexamples that convinced me were Grok and Steam VR aren't taking significant marketshare from ChatGPT and Ocu
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
> Surely you'd just make the tape/cassette larger? Originally, Betamax increased physical tape length, but cutting tape speed (like how vinyls can play at different RPMs) was a more economical way of cramming more hours onto
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Betamax had better picture quality but only had 1 hour of capacity. VHS had 2 hours. Consumers preferred not having to switch tapes to higher picture quality. Convenience is a technical advantage. That's why streaming later beat Blu-
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
The DCT of wavelengths that create the non-spectral colour. No clue how you'd film in this format but the CGI and video games would be epic.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
I'm excited for new displays where instead of RGB primaries that can only show a triangular subset of possible colours, we have dynamic primaries that can combine to show almost any colour.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
If you add together the sizes of the EU + Chinese markets in nominal dollars it's less than the American one. I used nominal dollars over PPP because that is what determines where multinationals choose to sell products. If one sells so
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Have any of them developed cancer from the space asbestos yet?
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The American consumer market is larger than the EU and China's combined(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by jjmarr 6mo ago|5 comments
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Does the BBC even have a paywall that needs to be bypassed so people can pirate news?
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
If the suicide prevention hotline cost $15/hr in the USA people would freak out! But since it's Japan it's whatever.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Wow, an example of AI engaging in powerseeking behaviour in the wild. This is an AI system given power to improve itself with zero oversight. One of the many Gas Town instances took an ethically questionable decision to accelerate its futur
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
We adopted this in Canada and Facebook/Instagram have banned news since 2023. The idea is that social media companies offer summaries of news that replace reading the article for most people. Thanks to commenters bypassing paywalls the
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
A local newspaper traditionally paid wire services[1] like the Associated Press or Reuters for the majority of their articles. They would only assign journalists for important or local content. The daily newspaper was a news aggregation s
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
It costs money to pay journalists. You get that money through advertising or subscription revenue. Advertising revenue is gone because everyone has adblock. You couldn't adblock TV or a physical newspaper. Subscription revenue is gone
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
It proves you could sit through 4 years of university and not fail out. Since basically anyone can graduate high school nowadays, this proves you put at least some effort into your education without being forced to. It doesn't really m
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
It's truer than ever because of applicant tracking systems that allow HR to automatically filter out people without degrees before they are even seen by the hiring manager. In combination with oversaturation of university graduates, it
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Most white collar jobs require a university degree. They don't care what it's in or your GPA or if you understood history/philosophy/English. Just that you have literally any degree.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
The best free restaurant bread I've had was at a Brazilian steakhouse, which for those unaware is all-you-can-eat steak. I believe this was due to their financial incentive of having me load up on bread.

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